The pair had earlier fallen out after the former Liverpool and Aston Villa striker wrote: "I would buy Katie Hopkins' silence."

Hopkins, referring to Collymore's reported attack on his ex-girlfriend Ulrika Jonsson in 1998,replied: "Alternatively Stan, you could kick me in the head until I could not talk. I am a woman after all."

Following the appearance of the photoshopped tweet, the former Apprentice star later wrote: "Stanley, stick to beating up women. You are good at that. Photoshop is not your thing."